So you though Koreans are only good at making hatchbacks?! Well check this out. It’s called the Spirra and by the looks of things it’s a full-on supercar. It has a tubular spaceframe, a full carbon body (which kinda looks like Noble M15), a mid-mounted engine, it’s rear wheel drvie and comes with a proper manual gearbox. It sounds promising…

The beating heart of the Spirra 2.7 liter V6 engine, and its output depends on you! If you are not willing to spend more cash and leave the engine as a normally aspirated unit, then you will have to live with only 170 hp. But if you decide that you want a Turbo on it, then you three choices: you can have a small, big or a twin turbocharger! They come with small,big and twin intercoolers and give 300, 400 and 450 to 500 hp respectively.

Now that might seem like a good idea,to have different stages of power for different budgets, but it’s not supercarish at all! If you want to make a supercar give it as much power as you can, why hold back?!

Koreans also claim that they have developed the Spirra’s chassis based on their experiences in GT racing and that it’s a good compromise between function and luxury with top-notch quality. So it might be a great car, but a car nonetheless. It doesn’t have the soul of a supercar!

Technical Specifcations

History in brief

The history of the Spirra dates back to the beginning of the 1990s when Han-chul Kim and his wife Ji-sun Choi, both talented automotive experts, quit their jobs in leading Korean car companies to establish ‘Proto Motors’.

Proto Motors was an automotive R&D firm specializing in developing advanced automotive concepts with industry clients and soon after settling down as a startup, ideas for a domestic developed supercar started to blossom.

Over several years, what began as an enthusiastic set of ideas developed into a full blown development project. In 2001, the ‘PS-II’ prototype was presented to the press with full commitment to bring it into production.

The difficulties in establishing a small scale, hand built production line of such exotic cars in an industry purely adapted to mass production was so great, the project saw several crisis that would nearly force it to a halt.

In July, 2006, Dong-hyuk Park, CEO of Oullim Group established Oullim Motors, absorbed Proto Motors and reshuffled the project to keep in on course for launch. In the end, it took a decade, 4 generations of complete re-engineering, certification and rewriting of legislature to bring our dream to the road.

As of March 2010, all legislature, homologation and certification was cleared for full production. We are expecting our first cars to be delivered this summer.